Your day with us and well see you right back here next week hello. Everyone. Thank you so much for joining inferred rica whitfield. This is our special live our of the cnn newsroom, the amanpour, our returns next saturday at this time 11 00 a. M. Eastern all right. Happening right now, an extreme geomagnetic storm hitting earth, threatening to cause major disruptions around the globe. A series of solar flares. And what are known as Coronal Mass Ejections from the sun are hurdling toward our planet. Its the strongest solar storm to hit earth since 2003. It sounds really ominous experts say hey it has the potential to cause a real danger. Solar flares can triggered communication. Gps, any electrical device malfunctions. Thats the scary stuff. Starlink says it has already been experiencing degraded service. The white house at several Telecom Companies are monitoring potential impacts but beyond those disruptions, some are really excited about it because much of the us and canada are being treated to a rare and spectacular show in this god thats the good stuff aurora borealis, the Northern Lights are being seen as far south as georgia and alabama. And if you miss last night, you may get another chance to experience it cnns allison chin, char is tracking all the effects. I mean, we started off with all the ominous, scary stuff, but really people are just enjoying the spectacular lights at some people. So i didnt see i went to bend too early, but a lot of other folks saw it last night . Yes. And truly in places you would never even think of when reports that people sought in the bahamas read when you think about how far said you those pictures that you see where snow and palm trees together and do something about it just doesnt seem right the same. Take a look at this image. This is from just south of jacksonville. Youve got the poem tree and the lights in the distance, just something very, very rare, but yes, people in very far south places were able to see these. But if you were one like fred who may miss the opportunity last night, the good news is there another chance to see it . And thats going to be tonight. Now, we did have the g5. Thats the highest level on the scale. You can get the event from yesterday and then also hitting a g5 event today. He thats the first time weve done that since october of 2003. So youre talking its been 20 years, incredibly rare for these to make it this far south. Now again, when it comes to, when is that Second Chance exactly. Thats what people want to know. Its going to meet tonight, but its really going to focus on the earlier end of the evening. So if you can get out right as soon as the sunsets that is going to be your best ideal time Still Available later on, but you can see it gradually decreases as we go later into the overnight hours and especially into tomorrow morning. So heres whats actually happening. Youve got this yellow dot that is the sun. This is earth. These are the solar winds. This is the first wave that came im through yesterday evening. Thats the first round everybody saw. And then this is going to be the secondary wave that will come through tonight. Thats when everybody is going to get say, a Second Chance to really see these again, in terms of who will have the opportunity. Obviously the farther north you go, the better opportunity you will have. But even these areas down Hearing Yellow still stand a pretty good chance of being able to see it. So yes, states like alabama, georgia, arizona, even florida, could see it again today, the caveat will be, do you have clouds because thats really going to be the only thing that would obscure it we do have a lot of cloud cover, expected rate here, especially texas, louisiana, arkansas, mississippi, that could cause some problems. There also into the north area is of pennsylvania, new york, vermont looking at clouds and also the chance of rain. But elsewhere should be relatively clear skies to be able to really get some good images here. Again, they are being seen farther south than we normally would be. Yes, theres the potential for some of those Power Outages and communicate patients issues. But essentially whats happening is that is that flare comes out. Youve got the solar wind and going around earths Magnetic Field, and thats whats triggering those spectacular colors also to noting that the speed at which its been going, thats whats allowing different colors. So usually when you see this, its the green color, but because this has been particularly fast and particularly farther south than usual, youre starting to see more of the pink and the red colors come in even just a little bit different from a normal perspective, yes, again here this from fort lauderdale, florida. Again, these beautiful images of these colors coming out. But if youre farther north, youre not just seeing the pinks and the reds, youre getting all of the colors like this image from seattle fred, theyve got the greens, the purples the red is basically absolutely every color. Imagine, oh, my gosh. And you dont need any special i year. I mean, this is what the naked eye people were taking some of these images with their for cell phones . Yes. And again, and thats the thing sometimes you can actually see it clearer on the phone and you can own eyes, but you can still see it. And thats cool. Neto. All right, im gonna try it again tonight. Im staying up, but i understand. Ill have to stay up as late. No. Okay. Goody. All right. Allison can charge so much. All right. Lets talk more about all this. I want to bring in tarik bleak. He is a Managing Editor for space. Com okay, break this down for us. Earthlings, how difficult is it to predict when one of these Geomagnetic Storms will actually flare up. I mean, this is a first in 20 years, right . Well, weve had a very active period of solar flares and Space Weather Activity from the sun over the last year or so, because were kind of at a point that space whether the experts called Solar Maximum basically the sun has an 11 year whether cycle just like earth has the daily Weather Cycle here on the ground and scientists have been mapping that over time and were at a really a particular active phase of it. They think about the peak of this 11 year cycle and thats when were going to see a lot of these active solar stars these huge events and in fact, the Sunspot Group that unleashed the flares were seeing is Something Like 17 times bigger than our planet so thats really exciting to see from Space Weather perspective. Oh, my gosh, its so excited when the world is it about this year, i mean, we are barely just getting over the whole total Lunar Eclipse clubs that we just experienced in all. And now were lucky enough to experience Something Like this. If only we would stay awake at which is what im gonna do tonight to watch Something Like this. If youre in an area in which this will be visible to you, i mean i mean, how do we make of all this . Amazing Great Fortune in one year i could tell you its a really great time to be a solar scientist for just someone that enjoys Tracking Space Weather and watching a eclipses or that organized. Ive never had a chance to see one, and thatll tell you i had serious fomo because it was raining here in an west orange new jersey when Everyone Else was seeing these amazing Northern Lights, as far south as horta, that we got reports in the promise early it was amazing how so thats all the good stuff now, then what about the flip side to it where there are real concerns about the interruptions that might come where at greater risk for increased radiation from the sun during these kind of solar storms help us kind of prioritize the risks yeah, so its not all like fun and light shows for these events. In fact, as you heard earlier, there are radio blackout events, were Radio Communications. Do get disrupted and our satellites and astronauts in orbit are particularly susceptible because if there are accompanying Radiation Storms that can endanger astronauts that are in orbit, theres seven on the International Space station right now, three on chinas Space Station as well. And they would have to go to a particularly shielded portion of their vehicles or even be ready to leave orbit if there was a severe emergency. Ive been Tracking Nasa since yesterday when the noaa Space Weather Group did issue some advisories so far, it doesnt seem like they have any of those Radiation Concerns yet, but we know that they were talking with noah and they were tracking these storms just to be sure and they satellite disruptions. Gps and communication satellites, they can be disrupted. We already heard some notes about Spacexs Starlink system that will have to be watched over time because we just had two major flares in the last ten hours as well, stronger even than the earlier ones we saw this week. So it will be lasting throughout the weekend, if not longer, need out. Okay. So i guess well, yeah, its neto to me. All right. So last time you were on the show for the Total Eclipse . Thats you said you wanted to experience that event with your family. Is this going to be a Family Experience . Again for you this weekend you know, the sky is here in new jersey are clear and if that holds there are some dark spots, at least here on our statement, we can drive. Its not too far away. It would be great to go have dinner and hopefully that light show if the weather holds and these conditions hold g5 is, as you heard, its been over 20 years since weve seen this level of a geomagnetic storm. And we may not see it again. Theyre fairly rare. And so it would be great too, if youve got the time, if youve got clear skies, and if youve if youve got less, less light pollution, although weve seen a lot of people seeing these with the city lights to i think that we could all be in for a treat and a bit of a mothers day, night sky show. After brunch. Oh, that sounds nice. All right. Well, im staying up tonight as latest i can im looking forward to the show and i2 will be watching it with family tarik malloch. Thank you so much. Good to see you again. 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Theyd rather Neighbor Team at the psaki, be fair, were not very athletic how it really happen tomorrow at nine on cnn this morning israels military says it is intensifying operations in central gaza and ordering the immediate evacuation of several more neighborhoods. Rafah, the new Evacuation Order follows thursdays approval by Israel Security cabinet to expand the area of operation in rafah which empowers the war cabinet to make military decisions. There without consulting the security cabinet all of this comes as the Biden Administration is modifying its commitment to supplying certain weapons to israel with conditions well have more from the white house in a moment, but first i want to bring in cnns scott mclean, who is following the latest developments in gaza. So scott, whats happening . Hey, for drinker, yeah, a new round of airstrikes in northern and central gaza are flooding hospital with hospitals with a new wave of victims, including a journalist, his wife and 12yearold son, and there may be more dead as people continue to pick through the rubble there with really little more than their bare hands and when you watch the images of the aftermath of the strikes and the chaos inside the hospitals that are taking in those victims. It is frankly hard to watch. Many of those victims are children. Some of them are tiny little infants who look like theyre just a few months old. The idf declined to comment on these overnight strikes other than to say that it follows International Law and that it takes measures to mitigate civilian harm that is worth noting only because the state apartment yesterday just came out with a report suggesting that israel is it is reasonable to assess in its words that israel has not always followed International Law. Now, idea the idf, as you mentioned, fredricka is warning people in parts of Northern Gaza and in five districts of rafah to move weve to safer areas. Those southern evacuees are supposed to be moving to a humanitarian zone along the coastline where it says that there are some 300,000 people. Now there that is the double the estimate that they gave on thursday. This is an area though where people have pitch tents along the roadway and along the coastline, but there is very little in the way of infrastructure to support that volume of people. There were also people we know inside of rafah who are struggling to get out. Some are unwilling to move, others are struggling with the difficulties involved in moving around this active area and also with the cost of it in some cases, and israel, as you mentioned, it seems pre